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Years ago, I was walking out of the Detroit Lions locker room with Dre Bly and Ndamukong Suh. Bly was a veteran closing out his career in his final training camp. Suh was a prized and promising rookie. “You wanna trade game checks?” Bly casually asked Suh. I chuckled quietly. Suh, humorless as ever, quietly

John Fox figured he was done with coaching when he was fired by the Chicago Bears the day after the 2017 season ended. Fox was drained from a lifetime in the sport, including nearly two straight decades as a head coach with the Carolina Panthers, Denver Broncos and Bears. He found work as a studio

New Detroit Lions defensive line coach John Scott Jr. is still haunted by the last time he saw Aidan Hutchinson on the field. Scott was an assistant at Penn State in November 2021, and Hutchinson was a wrecking ball in the process of leading Michigan to a 21-17 win over the Nittany Lions. Hutchinson forced

The Detroit Lions have done everything publicly to back Jared Goff as their quarterback, but they have not closed the door on taking his replacement with one of their two first-round picks. The Lions, who pick sixth and 18th in the first round, will host Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud on a pre-draft visit this

The men who drafted Jeff Okudah to the Detroit Lions have long since left town, done in by years of bad football and their inability to build — and manage — an NFL roster. But Okudah’s trade to the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday, for the prudent return of a fifth-round pick, is one more reminder

Jeff Okudah lost his starting job late last season, and after the Detroit Lions added three new starters to their secondary in free agency, the fourth-year cornerback no longer had a firm grip on a roster spot. So the Lions traded Okudah to the Atlanta Falcons on Tuesday for a fifth-round pick in this month’s

Mel Kiper Jr.’s latest mock draft couldn’t have turned out any better for the Detroit Lions. Kiper, the ESPN analyst, has the Lions landing two of the draft’s consensus five best prospects with their two first-round picks: Alabama edge rusher Will Anderson Jr. at No. 6 and Texas running back Bijan Robinson at No. 18.

The Detroit Lions overhauled their secondary in free agency, and they appear to be making plans to address the rest of their defense in this month’s NFL draft. The Lions already have pre-draft visits scheduled or completed with top defensive line prospects Jalen Carter and Will Anderson Jr., and one of the draft’s best linebacker

Last year, Brad Holmes traded up in the first round of the NFL draft to take wide receiver Jameson Williams. This year, he could have the chance to move down. The Detroit Lions have the sixth pick in what could be a very quarterback-heavy top 10, and with two QB-needy teams picking directly behind them,

Former Detroit Lions cornerback Alex Brown was sentenced to four months in Wayne County jail for a charge of operating a vehicle with a high blood-alcohol content for his role in a 2021 crash that injured a teammate. Brown entered a nolo contendre plea on Jan. 23, Wayne County Circuit Court records show, and was

Apple Podcasts | Spotify • Hosts: Shawn Windsor (@shawnwindsor) and Carlos Monarrez (@cmonarrez) • Editor: Robin Chan • Executive producers: Anjanette Delgado, Kirkland Crawford • Email: swindsor@freepress.com On this episode: This week, Shawn is placing Carlos and his latest article in the hot seat. What does the quarterback conversation reveal about fan expectations and perceptions? Later, with the Tigers home opener today, the guys talk swagger,

Dan Campbell will not be taking his Detroit Lions across international waters this fall. ESPN radio in Chicago reported Wednesday that the Chicago Bears will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Germany in the 2023 season, sparing the Lions a trip overseas. The Lions were one of a handful of candidates to play the Chiefs

Marvin Jones had a sense early in free agency that a reunion could be in the works, and the more he thought about playing for the Detroit Lions again, the more he liked the idea. Jones spent five of his best seasons in Detroit. His children called the area home from 2016-20. And when he

It’s standard fare for some teams, but when the Detroit Lions sit down for the NFL draft later this month, they will not have a depth chart — the table that lists players by position in their projected order of importance — in their draft room. Lions general manager Brad Holmes explained at the NFL’s